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End Of Ethics In A Technological Society
Schmidt, Lawrence E.; Marratto, Scott
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Description for End Of Ethics In A Technological Society
Paperback. Offers a challenge to modern liberal ethics by exposing its inability to confront the inexorable advance of technology. This title argues that modern technology, ethics, and politics are expressions of the enlightenment view that there are no principles of truth or goodness higher than the free human will. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 143 x 16. Weight in Grams: 376.
Lawrence Schmidt and Scott Marratto challenge modern liberal ethics, arguing that there is no consistent ethical framework to deal with the long-range negative consequences of certain technological developments They examine established ethical approaches to such urgent contemporary concerns as environmental degradation, nuclear energy, high tech militarism, and fetal genetic testing, showing that the prevailing viewpoint valorizes autonomy above all other goods and considers technological advances as mere extensions of the range of human freedoms. Modern ethics thus fails to take into account the moral intuition that some possibilities in the realm of techno science simply ought not to be ... Read more
Lawrence Schmidt and Scott Marratto challenge modern liberal ethics, arguing that there is no consistent ethical framework to deal with the long-range negative consequences of certain technological developments They examine established ethical approaches to such urgent contemporary concerns as environmental degradation, nuclear energy, high tech militarism, and fetal genetic testing, showing that the prevailing viewpoint valorizes autonomy above all other goods and considers technological advances as mere extensions of the range of human freedoms. Modern ethics thus fails to take into account the moral intuition that some possibilities in the realm of techno science simply ought not to be ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press Canada
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Montreal, Canada
ISBN
9780773533363
SKU
V9780773533363
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About Schmidt, Lawrence E.; Marratto, Scott
Lawrence E. Schmidt is professor, religious ethics, University of Toronto. Scott Marratto is a teaching fellow in the Foundation Year Programme, University of King's College, Halifax.
Reviews for End Of Ethics In A Technological Society
"The principle thesis, that contemporary moral relativism can lead to moral nihilism, is a very important insight that has been largely overlooked to date, but an idea that needs to be understood and broadly debated in society as a whole." Margaret Somerville, McGill Centre for Medicine, Ethics, and Law